Books with author Anita Stafford

Volume 2 of The Legend of Sassafras House seriesKale Flores doesn't understand why his dad left or where he went. Most days Kale loves his dad, but other days he hates him for leaving. It's been six years without a word. The one thing Kale wants most is for his dad to come home. An unexpected knock on the door raises Kale's hopes that his dad will come back. Both Kale's mom and his best friend, Jasmine, are skeptical. Kale wants to prove to them that his dad is not the deadbeat they think he is. It takes a treasure map of Catclaw Canyon to reveal the truth to everyone.

Kale Flores doesn’t understand why his dad left or where he went. Most days Kale loves his dad, but other days he hates him for leaving. It’s been six years without a word. The one thing Kale wants most is for his dad to come home. An unexpected knock on the door raises Kale’s hopes that his dad will come back. Both Kale’s mom and his best friend, Jasmine, are skeptical. Kale wants to prove to them that his dad is not the deadbeat they think he is. It takes a treasure map of Catclaw Canyon to reveal the truth to everyone.

These engaging children's stories chronicle a modern-day family as they celebrate the eight pagan holidays over the course of a year. Readers of all ages will delight in following the fictional Aisha and her family and friends. Told in Aisha's own words, these charming stories bring to life the tradition, beliefs, and values of the pagan faith as it is celebrated today.The book includes a brief introduction to each holiday and an outline of the key pagan concepts and lessons for each story. Readers will follow Aisha to winter solstice, the longest night of the year, when she learns to appreciate the importance of family and figures out how to end a fight with her best friend Heather. During the fall equinox, readers will rejoice with Aisha as she celebrates her many accomplishments over the past year.Each story includes a brief introduction to the holiday and an outline of the key pagan concepts and lessons that are fleshed out in the story. The tales are followed by earth-honoring activities suitable for adults and children alike.This refreshing, family-oriented approach to the pagan calendar is ideal for children, parents, teachers, and anyone who seeks greater insight into the spiritual significance of the pagan tradition.

"Miss Stafford writes with brilliance. Scene after scene is told with unforgettable care and tenuous entanglements are treated with wise subtlety. She creates a splendid sense of time, of the unending afternoons of youth, and of the actual color of noon and of night. Refinement of evil, denial of drama only make the underlying truth more terrible." --Saturday Review "Hard to match . . . for subtlety and understanding. . . written wittily, lucidly, and with great respect for the resources of the language. "--New Yorker Coming of age in pre-World War II California and Colorado brings tragedy to Molly and Ralph Fawcett in Jean Stafford's classic semi-autobiographical novel, first published in 1947. Torn between their mother's world of genteel respectability and their grandfather's and uncle's world of cowboy masculinity, neither Molly nor Ralph can find an acceptable adult role to aspire to. As events move to their swift and inevitable conclusion, Stafford uncovers and indicts the social forces that require boys to sacrifice the feminine in order to become men and doom intelligent girls who aren't pretty.

Excerpt from Animal Fables From the Dark ContinentThese fables have been selected, adapted and arranged from the folklore of the Negro race. Twenty of them were drawn entirely from Afri can sources and the other fourteen from American. The striking similarity between the two groups shows their common African origin and relation ship.It is now admitted that the great number of quaint animal stories once so frequently told among the slave population of our southern states in their odd dialect were brought to America by their ancestors from the shores of Africa.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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